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The now-defunct Heller Ehrman LLP escaped a former client’s $100 million malpractice suit alleging the firm neglected to tell it a patent application had expired when the Ninth Circuit on Friday found the client waited too long to file suit. ...read more

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday teed up a key legal question for oral argument in the R. Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme’s receiver’s quest to recover millions from The Golf Channel Inc. and other businesses paid by Stanford during his sprawling ...read more

Perlman Bajandas Yevoli & Albright PL has added a partner in its litigation practice who brings experience in bankruptcy, financial services and complex commercial matters, including several prominent recent cases, the Florida law firm announced Thursday ...read more

Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. on Thursday asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to extend the period in which it can exclusively file a Chapter 11 reorganization plan, saying that it needs to retain control in case a previously approved plan falls through ...read more

The liquidating trustee for bankrupt electric-car maker Fisker Automotive Holdings Inc. launched an adversary suit Thursday in Delaware bankruptcy court to recover more than $32.6 million from the BMW Group for engines the trustee said it never provided ...read more

Officers of a bankrupt Montana company can be held personally liable for their companies’ unpaid unemployment taxes under a state law, the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel has ruled, finding that the taxes are entitled to priority status ...read more

K&L Gates LLP urged a California federal judge to scrap the sole remaining claim in a legal malpractice suit brought by investors in a bankrupt petroleum company who say they were cheated out of any recovery during Chapter 11 proceedings, arguing ...read more

Eighteen-hundred truckers fired by Jevic Transportation Inc. have asked the Supreme Court to review a Third Circuit decision denying them $12.4 million in claims after their company went bankrupt, in a case that probes private equity firms' creditor ...read more

The Manhattan federal judge preparing for a test-drive trial that will seek to assess liability for General Motors ignition switch defects said Friday that a bankruptcy court ruling allowing consumers to seek punitive damages has left him with tough calls ...read more

A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP bankruptcy partner has joined the New York office of Vinson & Elkins LLP in a move the international law firm said would bolster its restructuring and reorganization practice group. ...read more

A New Hampshire bankruptcy judge on Friday approved GT Advanced Technologies Inc.’s plans to auction off sapphire furnaces in its Mesa, Arizona, facility, a key part of a proposed settlement that would extinguish Apple Inc.’s $439 million ...read more

A growing number of attorneys and firms are eschewing tradition by embracing technology to change not only the way we work, but also the way we organize our offices, says Anthony Johnson, founder and CEO of American Injury Attorney Group. ...read more

A recent decision from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in the restructuring case of a Berau Coal Energy subsidiary clarifies not only when a foreign company may be a debtor under Chapter 15, but the broader question of ...read more

A Delaware bankruptcy judge gave American Apparel the go-ahead Thursday to solicit creditors on its Chapter 11 plan despite protests from ousted CEO Dov Charney that the disclosure statement contains “inflammatory” language about him that ...read more

Over the past 35 years, Joe Kanka has experienced the corporate legal department from many angles, including management positions at a major law firm litigation support center, two legal staffing companies, and inside AT&T and Bell Atlantic. Here ...read more

The former CEO of bankrupt Sentinel Management Group Inc. has been banned from the commodity futures trading industry, an Illinois federal judge ruled Wednesday, holding that Eric A. Bloom’s related 2014 criminal conviction made it impossible for ...read more

A group of junior noteholders struck back Wednesday against complaints by Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. that four creditor suits pending against its nondebtor parent threaten to sink reorganization efforts, telling the Seventh Circuit the debtor's ...read more

Trump Entertainment Resorts on Thursday asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to sign off on modifications to its Chapter 11 financing that would increase the size of its bankruptcy loan by $12.6 million to cover the cost of paying Atlantic City property ...read more

Colorado-based Atna Resources Ltd. filed for Chapter 11 in Colorado bankruptcy court late Wednesday, seeking protection to allow a restructuring in the wake of a recent default on a $22 million prepetition loan, unfavorable equity markets for gold mining ...read more

Bankrupt energy player ATP Oil & Gas Corp. on Thursday agreed to a $41 million settlement that will end the federal government’s lawsuit against the company over its alleged unauthorized discharges of oil and chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico ...read more

A woman who has a legal judgment against 50 Cent said in court papers on Thursday that Brewer Attorneys & Counselors, a law firm assisting the rapper with his bankruptcy, has run up an exorbitant hotel and travel bill, and demanded that the fees be ...read more

Relativity Media on Wednesday submitted its blueprint for restructuring the media company and emerging from Chapter 11, saying in court papers filed in New York that it's lined up a new revolving credit facility worth up to $250 million. ...read more

A decision last week by a New York bankruptcy judge splits innumerable hairs, but delineates the extent to which the new General Motors — which acquired the assets of "Old GM" in 2009 — is shielded from lawsuits based on ignition switch defects ...read more

The CEO of Energia Logistics U.S. defended the satellite launching venture from claims it was created solely as a ploy by its Russian state-controlled parent to avoid paying Boeing $111 million for work getting the satellite company's predecessor ...read more